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by ranaexmachina 2132 days ago
In computer science a lot of researcher already publish their code (at least in the domain of software engineering) but my biggest problem is not the absence of tests but the absence of any documentation how to run it. In the best case you can open it in an IDE and it will figure out how to run it but I rarely see any indications what the dependencies are. So if you figure out how to run the code you run it until you get the first import exception, get the dependency until you get the next import exception and so on. I spent way too much time on that instead of doing real research.